Daily Quote for 9-20-06
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
Walter Elliott
Daily Quote for 9-19-06
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
H.E. Luccock
Daily Quote for 9-18-06
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Josh Billings
Acres of Diamonds
Russell Conwell is well known for making a famous speech titled, Acres of Diamonds. In this speech he tells up a man who gave up everything in search of a fortune only to find out years later that a fortune was under the feet of the land he sold.
The point of the story is to […]
Daily Quote for 9-15-06
A great many people think they are thinking, when the are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
Daily Quote for 9-14-06
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Daily Quote for 9-13-06
The things that matter most should never be at the mercy of the things that matter least.
Goethe
Bonus: Find out who Goethe is at Winipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe
Guy Kawsaki on why smart people do dumb things
As a starting point he shares about is hard disk crashing and then talks about why, as a smart person, he did a dumb thing, not backing it up. His four reasons that smart people do dumb things are…
Hubris. Pride to the point that you no longer feel shame, no longer believe that you are […]
Daily Quote for 9-12-06
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein, (attributed)
Daily Quote for 9-11-06
Focus is the base of a mental pyramid. If you boost that, you can’t help boosting everything above it.
Sean Drummond, Neuroscientist